This theme of beauty is closely related to the general theme of immortality. Sonnet eighteen is ultimately an answer to the question posed in the first line. “The speaker answers this question negatively, suggesting that the object of his affection is 'fairer and more temperate' than a mere summer's day. Although summer days are pleasant, they are neither perfect nor eternal. Their narrowness and propensity for bad weather render them, the speaker argues, in a miserable comparison with the object of his affection (Napierkowski and Ruby).” The speaker's use of the term "temperate" pronounced in three syllables is significant, because he will continue to praise the qualities of endurance and consistency over those of change. The speaker uses the extreme to emphasize the subject's beauty: "loveliest," "all too short," and "too hot," but at no point does he describe the subject's actual physical characteristics. We are never told any details about the subjects' appearance, instead we are told that their beauty is greater than that of a summer's day and the sun. Then, the speaker gives us a twist by stating that the topic is not as beautiful as a summer's day, but even better. Shakespeare continues to reinforce this by listing the faults of the summer; the season that has "winds too brutal to shake the dear buds of May." We are also told how summer is “too short,” thus reinforcing an impending mortality in contrast to the immortality extended to the subject who is immortalized within the poem. Beauty can fade by chance or through the course of nature. The repetition of "right" highlights fate's inevitable hold on all that possesses beauty. The speaker reaffirms that the beauty of his subject will never fade, but will be preserved within this poem. This self-confident statement brings us to the point that this poem was not actually intended to pay a loved one